Organized Crime and New Participants
The Internet is not a well-organized market dominated by fixed social norms. It is wide open and more anarchic than orderly. Generally, users are free to lie, create the foundations of illicit relationships, and often remain anonymous. The Internet is the software-hardware backbone of good things (e.g., scientific and scholarly collaboration) and bad things (e.g., conspiracies and antitrust collusion). Traditional organized crime arose before the invention of the Internet, and some have argued that the use of the Internet generally has resulted in an enhanced facilitation of criminal activities, for example, the Internet fosters cybercrime committed collectively whether globally and/or locally. ...
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